rattleweed
Meanings
noun
- Any plant of the genus Astragalus. of milkvetches.
- Certain other plants:
- Cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera), an endangered legume native to the United States.
- Fremont’s leather flower (Clematis fremontii), a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
- Rattlepod (Crotalaria retusa), a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
- Desert senna (Senna covesii), a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
- Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
Word forms
Etymology
From rattle + weed.
Synonyms
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